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Horner's syndrome and weakness of upper limb after epidural anaesthesia for caesarean section

Horner's syndrome is not rare during labour epidural analgesia or in pregnant patients receiving epidural anaesthesia for caesarean section as thought previously. It occurs due to blockade of sympathetic fibres supplying the eye and face area. Most of the times it is a benign and self-limiting...

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Autor principal: Jadon, Ashok
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4155296/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25197119
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.139012
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description Horner's syndrome is not rare during labour epidural analgesia or in pregnant patients receiving epidural anaesthesia for caesarean section as thought previously. It occurs due to blockade of sympathetic fibres supplying the eye and face area. Most of the times it is a benign and self-limiting condition; however, it may become a serious systemic manifestation. We present a case where patient had weakness of upper-limb and Horner's syndrome of same side with visual disturbances. These symptoms were transient and resolved spontaneously without any treatment.
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spelling pubmed-41552962014-09-05 Horner's syndrome and weakness of upper limb after epidural anaesthesia for caesarean section Jadon, Ashok Indian J Anaesth Case Report Horner's syndrome is not rare during labour epidural analgesia or in pregnant patients receiving epidural anaesthesia for caesarean section as thought previously. It occurs due to blockade of sympathetic fibres supplying the eye and face area. Most of the times it is a benign and self-limiting condition; however, it may become a serious systemic manifestation. We present a case where patient had weakness of upper-limb and Horner's syndrome of same side with visual disturbances. These symptoms were transient and resolved spontaneously without any treatment. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4155296/ /pubmed/25197119 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.139012 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Anaesthesia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Horner's syndrome and weakness of upper limb after epidural anaesthesia for caesarean section
title Horner's syndrome and weakness of upper limb after epidural anaesthesia for caesarean section
title_full Horner's syndrome and weakness of upper limb after epidural anaesthesia for caesarean section
title_fullStr Horner's syndrome and weakness of upper limb after epidural anaesthesia for caesarean section
title_full_unstemmed Horner's syndrome and weakness of upper limb after epidural anaesthesia for caesarean section
title_short Horner's syndrome and weakness of upper limb after epidural anaesthesia for caesarean section
title_sort horner's syndrome and weakness of upper limb after epidural anaesthesia for caesarean section
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4155296/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25197119
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5049.139012
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